Great Tang princess

Chapter 472 Sea Sausage Powder

Jixian Temple is on the west side of Ziwei Palace, close to Jiuzhou Pool, and there is a water channel after going out. Compared with other palaces, the air quality will be better.

Since living and working here, Wu Zetian's mood has obviously improved a lot. Of course, this is also inseparable from the help of Shangguan Wan'er, and she no longer has to review a large number of memorials alone every day like before.

Now she is basically busy for a while every morning, eats at noon, wakes up after lunch break, and usually lies on the rocking chair to read a book, or asks Shangguan Wan'er to accompany her to drink tea and play chess and Shuanglu.

The weather in May was already hot. Wu Zetian, who didn't plan to meet anyone today, was wearing a waistcoat with bare arms and a ponytail. She looked like a housewife.

Today was different from the past, she didn't have fun, but sat by the bed, reading the letter from her daughter while basking in the sun.

Looking at it, I couldn't help raising my eyebrows. The letter introduced in detail that the model of the new warship is called the Queen's Ship, but I still hope that the mother will decide on the specific name.

In order to give her the most intuitive impression of the ship, a ten-foot-long miniature model was sent back with the letter, which was the one before the ship was officially built.

The shape of the model and the real thing is exactly the same, just to let my mother have the most intuitive understanding of the ship.After all, she is the emperor, so it is impossible for her to come to Shandong in person.

And this model can really go into the water, and even sail when the sails are pulled up.

It can be said that, except that it cannot be controlled, it is no different from the remote control boat of the future.

Looking at the model already placed in the main hall, Wu Zetian suddenly got up and said, "Wan'er, take this thing with you, let's take a look at Jiuzhou Chi."

"Yes!" Shangguan Wan'er agreed, got up and supported her arm and walked out of Jixian Hall.

……

Zhang Chengxin carefully directed several eunuchs to take the model to Jiuzhou Pool, and slowly put it into the water under Wu Zetian's order.

The eunuchs were also cautious, mainly because they had never seen this kind of sharp-bottomed boat before. If it sank directly when it was put down, it would be a big joke.

If he was blamed by the saint for this, his head would probably have to move.

But they obviously thought too much. After putting the model ship down, they were still cautiously walking around, for fear that if they didn't pay attention, the ship would capsize.

However, even in the waves caused by their walking in the water, let alone capsized, even the hull could barely see any shaking, and it was quite stable.

Seeing that nothing was wrong, the eunuchs took a few steps back so that Wu Zetian, who was standing on the shore, could see the boats floating on the water.

Wu Zetian had a smiling expression on his face. Although he was also pleased with the result, he was not overly surprised.

After all, my daughter can even make objects that fly into the sky. Isn't it very simple to improve the existing boat?
As for Shangguan Wan'er next to her, she had such a smiling expression from beginning to end, and she had 100% confidence in the things Li Yuechen made.

Compared with confidence, it can even be said to be a kind of blind obedience, but so what?She has watched His Highness invent many things since she was a child, and each one is more miraculous than the other.Now it's just a boat, and it couldn't be simpler.

Wu Zetian probably imagined how the ship would look hundreds of times magnified, then waved and brought Shangguan Wan'er back to Jixian Hall.

Entering the hall, Shangguan Wan'er knelt at the table making tea, while Wu Zetian stood in front of the transparent glass window with her hands behind her back, looking at the sun in the blue sky blocked by clouds, as if in a daze.

Shangguan Wan'er put the brewed tea beside her: "Your Majesty, tea."

"Um……"

Wu Zetian nodded slightly, and then asked: "Chen'er asked me to name this boat, does Wan'er have any suggestions?"

This also asks for my advice?Shangguan Wan'er was puzzled, didn't His Majesty always know how to choose names?
But he said: "I don't know if Your Majesty has an idea?"

"No!" Wu Zetian shook his head.

"His Highness once said that he hoped that the country would have a bright future, why not think about it from this aspect?" Shangguan Wan'er reminded.

Wu Zetian lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head to look at the sun covered by clouds, and said with a slight smile, "Speaking of which, you can see Baidizi in the morning...how about naming it 'Baidizi'?"

Baidizi is an elegant name for Taibaijinxing, which can be seen in the early morning and is called a morning star most of the time.

Shangguan Wan'er immediately understood what she meant, and immediately saluted, "Your Majesty is wise!"

Wu Zetian didn't care about the flattery, so he smiled and picked up the teacup: "Speaking of which, Chen'er also said that in the future, he might use a hang glider to deliver messages, so let me find a suitable place to land..."

……

When the weather gets hotter, the salt pan starts to operate again, and a large amount of refined salt is produced every day.

Because of the current limited purchase policy, the salt in nearby states and counties has not been sold out, and there is still a lot of inventory in the warehouse. Li Yuechen once again sent people to pass out a batch of salt, and strive to achieve a market size that exceeds supply this year.

At the same time, a convoy is sent every month to transport most of the refined salt to the Eastern Capital, and then the imperial court decides how to radiate the whole country.

This will be determined according to the population calculation of the Ministry of Household Affairs. At that time, the top leaders of various states and counties will definitely try their best to do more. By then, they should be able to pull out many black households and give them household registration.

This can be regarded as what Li Yuechen thought of before. For the stable development of the country, the number of black households must be continuously reduced, and it must be less than one year.

In terms of many policies in the future, it is also necessary to eliminate the appearance of black households as much as possible to ensure the accuracy of the national census.

Li Yuechen's idea is to try his best to increase the country's population to about [-] million within his lifetime, otherwise in the future there will be a huge territory without enough population, and that will be the real trouble.

……

Although the weather in May is hot, the dark guards in Qingzhou can't rest at all.

Every day, they took the prisoners captured from the Qingdao camp to wander aimlessly through the streets, just to see if they could meet the person who gave them weapons and armor.

For these prisoners, although they are happy not to have to do hard work, it is also uncomfortable to be taken to the streets for a long time every day.

In particular, the hidden guards were also trained in the army. Their work and rest rules were quite strict. They had to go to bed early and get up early when there was no mission.

This group of prisoners is different. They used to be big brothers in the society. Not to mention singing and singing every night, but at least they have a rich nightlife.

But here, they must adopt the same work and rest style as them, go to bed early and get up early, and be taken to the streets every day.

Although they were all dressed like ordinary people, they knew that the guards had axes hanging on their thighs. If they dared to escape, they would definitely be hacked to death on the spot.

They are all wearing improved round-neck robes, the axes on their legs are generally not exposed, but at the same time, they will not affect reaching in and taking them, and they can definitely be pulled out within a second.

Lai Junchen himself sorts out various clues in the office every day, conducts various inferences, and tries to find other breakthroughs from the clues he has so far.

However, he seemed to be lucky. Today, just after noon, his hidden guard came to report: "Boss, find one!"

"Huh?" Lai Junchen raised his head, his eyes lit up, "Tell me specifically!"

The hidden guards under his command immediately reported.

Today they took Angui out for a long time. When they were going to come back for lunch at noon and continue shopping in the afternoon, he suddenly stopped and turned around and told them in a low voice that he saw that it was the girl in the teahouse behind him. man in white clothes.

The two hidden guards around him pretended to look up casually, and asked him if he was sure, and he said that it was most likely.

So one of them stayed where he was, intending to follow up for a while, and the other brought Angui back to report first.

After listening to the report, Lai Junchen nodded: "If he comes back, report to me immediately no matter when!"

"Yes!" The subordinate quickly agreed.

After his subordinates left, Lai Junchen didn't seem very happy right away. After all, this matter has not been penned yet, so it is hard to say what the specific situation is.

If you laugh now, it will be the most disgusting thing to find out that you were happy for nothing.

It has to be said that Lai Junchen is actually quite stable in character.

……

In the evening, after another hidden guard came back, he didn't even bother to take a bite of his meal, so he hurried to Lai Junchen's office to report to him about today's situation.

He followed the other party to his home and had already grasped the other party's whereabouts.

Lai Junchen stroked the beard on his chin: "Are you sure you haven't been discovered?"

"I'm sure, the other party doesn't know that I'm following you." The dark guard replied.

Among other things, at least in this respect, they are all professionals. During the training, Li Yuechen specially recruited the best expert in tracking and arresting criminals in Dali Temple to teach them.

Lai Junchen nodded: "Okay, since that's the case, check the other party's identity and who is in the family in the next few days. If there is any accident, just arrest it!"

"Yes!" The dark guard agreed.

Anyway, having a clue now is equivalent to having a direction, at least it is much better than wandering aimlessly on the street.

……

In the barracks, Li Yuechen didn't know the progress of Lai Junchen's side, and basically stayed at sea for the past few days.

On the battleship at this time, the soldiers were not training, but were wearing fins and carrying oxygen bags to and from the sea surface and underwater.

Every time I come up, I can see a lot of sea sausage in my pocket, and then the bags are pulled onto the boat.

In fact, Li Yuechen had been thinking about this thing before he came here, but it was only now that he really started fishing.

I didn't fish too much today, I mainly plan to try it first, and after the experiment is successful, I can consider the issue of large-scale fishing and breeding.

After the sea sausage is caught, it is processed and dried in the sun, and then ground into powder.

On the same day, Li Yuechen took the ground to the cooking class and asked them to add a little of this before cooking to see how it worked.

The people in the cooking class agreed, and after a simple test, they added sea intestine powder to the dish at noon the next day.

The soldiers who trained all morning, as usual, picked up the chopsticks and put the hot dishes into their mouths after they started eating.

"oops!"

"hiss--"

"This taste..."

There were exclamations one after another in the cafeteria, and the quiet cafeteria became noisy the next moment, as if following a vegetable market.

It was only after Geng Yun yelled a few words that he gradually calmed down.

They eat in the cafeteria every day, and they already know the taste of the dishes made by the cooking team.

The taste suddenly changed today, except for some people who are not very sensitive to taste, most people reacted immediately.

Not to mention them, even the officers who sat at the same table with Li Yuechen picked up a chopstick dish again with a look of surprise, and leaned forward to look at it curiously.

Li Yuechen smiled: "What's wrong?"

"Your Highness, today's dish...is really..."

"Delicious!" Geng Yunqiang added the adjective he wanted to say.

"exactly……"

Seeing that they were also laughing, Li Yuechen nodded slightly: "The newly researched ingredients in the past few days, in the future, the military dishes will taste like this!"

When the officers heard this, they all showed satisfied smiles.The food in the army is already very good, but who would reject better?

It's just that Li Yuechen was thinking about another thing. Now the experiment of sea intestine powder has been considered a preliminary success, but it can't be sold as a commodity yet.

At present, it can be used by the army and the palace at most, and there is no way to mass-produce it because the output is not enough.

Next, we can consider the cultivation of sea sausages, and see if we can pull a net in the sea to ensure that the production of sea sausages increases.

At that time, it can be considered to sell it as a commodity, otherwise, if it is overfished, it may really become extinct.

……

The entire camp after this meal was very satisfying. After the meal, the soldiers were still discussing how good the food tasted today...

Li Yuechen planned not to send it to the palace for now, let's wait until it is a little more perfect. First of all, we need to make a good statistics of the production of sea sausages in the vicinity.

At the same time, think about the future breeding problems, which will take time to do experiments.

And to put it bluntly, even if the breeding is successful, this food cannot be afforded by everyone.

After more than a thousand years, it is reasonable to say that the scale of the industry has been quite developed, but people in most places still use MSG instead of rice rolls. Why?
Because 250 grams of this thing will sell for nearly 200 yuan!Much more expensive than MSG!

So even if the farming is successful, it is estimated that only the middle class and above can afford it, and there is no way to reduce the price to as low as salt.

It is like the pepper of this era, it is a luxury condiment, not something that ordinary people can afford.

Fortunately, after it is made, it may be sold to foreign businessmen at a high price and earn more gold coins. At least it can still play a certain role in economic development.

Before he knew it, Li Yuechen began to consider the economic value of it.

(End of this chapter)